Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Internet access (fwd)

[Klaus Weide]

By the way, Larry,

On Tue, 13 May 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:

> POST /cgi-bin/uncgi/search HTTP/1.0
> Host: www.midwinter.com
> Accept: x-conference/x-cooltalk, application/x-candleweb, 
> x-conference/x-coolta
> lk, x-world/x-vrml, video/x-mpeg, application/x-wt, application/x-rasmol, 
> appli
> cation/x-xdma, audio/x-pn-realaudio, application/x-chat, 
> text/tab-separated-val
> ues, application/applefile, application/pgp, application/x-ccitcl, 
> application/
> safe-tcl, multipart/enabled-mail, application/x-tgif, application/view_pctdoc,
> application/framemaker, video/*, application/pdf, sun-deskset-message, 
> mail-fil
> e, default, postscript-file, audio-file, x-sun-attachment, text/enriched, 
> text/
> richtext, application/andrew-inset, x-be2, application/postscript, image/ps, 
> im
> age/postscript, application/x-dvi, application/x-tex, application/postscript, 
> m
> essage/external-body, message/external-body, message/partial, image/*, 
> image/x-
> xwd, image/gif, image/jpeg,     compose=audiocompose%s, auplay%s, audio/*, 
> imag
> e/*, image/jpeg, text/html, text/plain, text/sgml, text/x-sgml, 
> application/x-w
> ais-source, application/html, video/mpeg, image/jpeg
> Accept: image/x-tiff, image/x-rgb, image/x-png, image/x-xbitmap, image/x-xbm, 
> i
> mage/gif, application/postscript, */*;q=0.001

Do you need all that stuff (presumably in your mailcap files)?  all that 
gets sent with every Lynx request, may result in requiring two network 
packets instead of one for the request, and make requests slower.  There
is a lot of stuff which isn't walid MIME types (doesn't have a slash), 
probably from the original metamail.  If that is really of any use, then
probably not with Lynx, and you might consider using a different mailcal file
for Lynx.  There is also stuff where the mailcap didn't get parsed correctly
or has the wrong syntax, "compose=audiocompose%s" and "auplay%s" definitely
shouldn't be there.

> Accept-Charset: iso latin 1, iso-8859-1;q=0.001, us-ascii;q=0.001
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^

You must have typed that in on the Options screen.  It is invalid
and also unnecessary.  The valid way to say "iso latin 1" is "iso-8859-1",
and that is already being said and is the HTTP default anyway.

Now if you didn't type this "iso latin 1" anywhere but Lynx is somehow
generating it, then it is definitely a bug.

   Klaus

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